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Much as it has meant to the community, the citizens are even prouder of the fact that the convention has become a famous oasis for folk buffs, talent scouts, and people who just like to hear some fancy bowin' and pickin'. In fact, Union Grovers are beginning to believe that a special providence watches over the event. Founder H. P. Van Hoy, now 81, recalls that it rained on the opening session 44 years ago, but "there hasn't been a drop of rain on any convention since. If that doesn't mean the Lord...
Still A.M.C.'s biggest stockholder, Evans will keep his seat on the board and remain on the executive committee. "The company has cleansed itself out, so to speak," said Evans at a press conference next day, but "I will have my little cotton-pickin' hands in this pie for quite some time...
...Dodgers were leading the Pirates by H games, the Giants by 4. But it was still anybody's pennant, and none of the contenders were ready to go fishing quite yet. "This business is just battle, battle, battle," sighed Pittsburgh Manager Harry Walker, "every cotton-pickin...
Last week Eddy Arnold was on the road again. Only this time he rode up in a big Cadillac car to pick up $5,000 for an evening of pickin' and singin' at Manhattan's Carnegie Hall. What was a li'l ole country boy doing in a big fancy place like that? "This is the fulfillment of a lifetime dream," drawled Eddy, all fancied up in a tuxedo and string tie. Backed by a 17-piece orchestra, he sang about humpback mules, lonesome hearts and them old cottonfields back home in a mellifluous baritone that...
...down by the shady doctor, a dying thief tells them that he was trying to lift $500,000 stashed in a wall safe. The cops persuade themselves that ill-gotten gains might as well line the pockets of two hard-working law officers, and conspire to do some Cotten-pickin' after hours. Their moonlighting ends in a mock-Shakespearean finale. While Montalban overacts outrageously, Ford fires bullets along with a somewhat more lethal barrage of words, words, words. "It isn't the money," intones Ford. "It never is. It's people. The things they want...